Mobile TV Coming to 22 U.S. Cities- Digital Trends News - January 9, 2009
- The Open Mobile Video Colation (OMVC) has announced that some 63 broadcast stations in 22 U.S. cities have committed to launching mobile television broadcasts during 2009. The stations cover about 35 percent of U.S. television households, and include...
Pioneer Offers Upconverting DVD Player- Digital Trends News - January 9, 2009
- Pioneer has brought a new DVD player to CES. The DV-420V 1080p upconverting DVD player is, they claim, the first to offer MP3 encoding capability.The player has a new song encoding feature that lets users take audio CDs and rip them into MP3 files th...
AP Joins With Intel's Widget Channel- Digital Trends News - January 9, 2009
- Want the Internet on your TV? It’s perfectly possible, and the Associated Press has joined with Intel’s Widget Channel to demonstrate it at CES.The news ticker scrolls across the bottom of the television screen and the television viewer c...
- Boxee: Open Source Connected TV
- PC World News - January 9, 2009
- Free software puts content from Hulu, Netflix, Flickr, Last.fm and other sources on your television.
Sony Pushes Eco- and Net-Friendly HDTVs- Digital Trends News - January 8, 2009
- Electronics giant Sony has taken the wraps off its 2009 television lineup at this year's CES show, unveiling a line of new environmentally-friendly Bravia televisions, a new Bravia line with Ethernet and Yahoo's Widget Engine built right in, ...
Vizio Announces Connected HDTV Platform- Digital Trends News - January 8, 2009
- Cut-rate HDTV maker Vizio—like every other HD TV manufacturer—has big plans to serve as the center of consumers' media consumption…and wants to do it via its just-announced Connected HDTV platform. The idea is to combine tradit...
- Daily Tidbits: Nine Inch Nails is the coolest band around
- CNET News - January 8, 2009
- Nine Inch Nails is allowing fans to create "cool" videos from recent concert footage and more people are watching mobile television than ever.
- Need a digital TV coupon? Get thee to a wait list
- CNET News - January 7, 2009
- Embarrassingly, the National Television and Information Administration's fund for subsidizing conversion boxes for next month's digital TV transition has run out of money. Oops!
- Eviant, Inc. Introduces 19-inch Digital Portable Television Set fro...
- Press Releases - January 7, 2009
Netgear Demonstrates 2009 Offerings- Digital Trends News - January 7, 2009
- Netgear’s characteristically small CES press conference held few surprises this year, but 2009 promises to be a fruitful year for media enthusiasts with a need to bring content from the Web and their computers to the their TVs. The company&rsqu...
Toshiba Unveils New TV Tech for 2009- Digital Trends News - January 7, 2009
- The worker bees at Toshiba have been hard at work during 2008. Despite a devastating failure at the beginning of the year when the HD-DVD format collapsed beneath it, the company has redirected its efforts toward a number of new technologies that wil...
China Wants Clean Internet- Digital Trends News - January 6, 2009
- China wants its citizens to have access to a nice Internet, free of offensive, vulgar and suggestive material. To that end, it’s named 19 sites that have ignored its requests to remove unapproved material, including Google and Baidu, which rank...
Samsung TVs to Pack Yahoo Widget Engine- Digital Trends News - January 5, 2009
- Consumer electronics giant Samsung has announced that it plans a new line-up of HDTV televisions that will be able to access Internet content via the Yahoo Widget Engine. Dubbed "Internet@TV," the technology will enable lightweight Javascri...
Adobe, Intel to Bring Flash to TVs- Digital Trends News - January 5, 2009
- Software developer Adobe and chipmaker Intel have announced they're working to bring Adobe's Flash Player and Flash Light to Intels' Media Processor CE3100—in other words, the companies plan to put Flash into televisions and TV peri...
LG Bringing Netflix to HDTVs- Digital Trends News - January 5, 2009
- Last year, LG and video rental service Netflix teamed up on a set-top box, then big mid-year announced a Netflix-enbabled Blu-ray player that could stream video content from Netflix via a user's home broadband connection. Now, the companies are ...